• In this photo taken from video footage, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma handles a diamond during a meeting with delegates of Kono district, where the gem was found, at the presidential office in Freetown Thursday. A pastor discovered the largest uncut diamond found in more than four decades in this West African country and turned it over to the government, saying he hopes it helps to boost recent development in his impoverished nation. | SLBC / VIA AP
    In this photo taken from video footage, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma handles a diamond during a meeting with delegates of Kono district, where the gem was found, at the presidential office in Freetown Thursday. A pastor discovered the largest uncut diamond found in more than four decades in this West African country and turned it over to the government, saying he hopes it helps to boost recent development in his impoverished nation. | SLBC / VIA AP

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FREETOWN – A Christian pastor has found one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds — weighing 706 carats — in Sierra Leone’s eastern Kono region.

The stone, a photograph of which was posted on the president’s official website, is being stored in the country’s central bank, government sources said.

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